| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1957 | 
| Number: | 56 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Otto  Haxel | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1909 | 
| Year, Death: | 1998 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Heidelberg | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Johannes Hans Daniel  Jensen | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1973 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | Heidelberg University | 
| City: | Heidelberg | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Hans E Suess | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1909 | 
| Year, Death: | 1993 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Chicago | 
| State: | IL | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 4: 
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| Name: | Maria  Goeppert-Mayer | 
| Gender: | F | 
| Year, Birth: | 1906 | 
| Year, Death: | 1972 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| University: | University of Chicago | 
| State: | IL | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Karl Johann  Freudenberg | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1886 | 
| Year, Death: | 1983 | 
| City: | Heidelberg | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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